Shaving-stick container



July 22 1924. 1,502,496

P. K. WILLIAMS SHAVING STICK CONTAINER Filed July 20, 1922 i 2 6 12 muml ifilimuum numumnn} mun J- 17 a I E a MHIIIHIllllllllllllllllllllli 1|XIlllllHIHHIIIHHIHW Patented July 22, 1924.

taint PHILIP K. WILLIAMS, OF GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE J. B. WILLIAMS COMPANY, OF GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

SHA'VING-STICK CONTAINER.

Application filed July 20,

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP K. WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Glastonbury, county of Hartford, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Shaving- Stick Container, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shaving sticl containers of the type having a central ring or band encircling a soap stick and caps protecting the respective ends of the stick and in detachable engagement with the ring so that one end of the soap stick can he used until exhausted (employing the cap protecting the other end as a handle), and then the other end of the stick used in a similar manner. A shaving soap stick container of this type is illustrated and claimed in the Riesenberg Patent No. 1,194,427 granted August 15th, 1916. Owing to the keen competition met in the sale of shaving stick containers and the immense number of such devices sold each year, improvements in construction, although slight, which result in reducing the cost of manufacture, make the article more convenient and sanitary in use and permit the entire consumption of the soap stick and easy replacement thereof when eX- hausted, are of the utmost value from a practical and commercial standpoint. The aim of the present invention is to provide a construction wherein these objects are attained.

The present invention contemplates a structure embodying a split band or ring threaded at its ends and adapted to encircle the central portion of a soap stick and a pair of caps covering the respective ends of the stick and having threads complementary to and adapted to receive those on the ring; the ring having ineans for maintaining the threads thereof in alinement and the construction and arrangement being such that when either of the caps is screwed onto the central ring the latter is thereby contracted and caused to very securely grip and hold the soap stick against movement relative thereto, and the caps, which serve as handles while applying the opposite end of the soap stick to the face, are firmly and steadily held 1922. Serial No. 576,315.

on the ring and there is no loose play between or displacement of the parts.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein I have shown for illustrative purposes one embodiment which the device of the present in- Fig. 8 is an elevational view of the central ring and shows the means for maintaining the threads thereof in alinement.

Referring to the drawing in detail, a designates a soap stick which, if desired, may be wrapped in paper or the like. 6 designates the ring or band adapted to surround and grip the shaving stick between its ends, and 0, (Z, are the caps enclosing the respective ends of the soap stick and threaded onto the ring 5.

The ring 6, which is preferably formed of sheet inetal, is provided at opposite ends with threads 10 and llrunning in opposite directions and between these threaded portions is a circumferential bead 12 of increased diameter, this bead preferably being knurled so that a secure finger grip may be obtained thereon when unscrewing the caps therefrom. The ring 6 is split as at 13 so that it may be contracted into gripping rela tion with the soap stick. I have found, when screwing the caps onto the central ring, forces are brought into play which tend to distort the ring in the direction of its axis and thus throw the threads out of alinement so that the caps cannot be screwed thereon without experiencing considerable diificulty. For the purpose ofpr'eventing this deflection of the ring, one end thereof is provided with a tongue 14 which takes into and has interlocking engagement with a notch 15 in the other end of the ring. The caps o and d at their open ends are provided with threads 16 and 17, respectively, which are ,complementary to the threads 10 and 11. I t It will be seen that with the arrangement described, to assemble the container onto the soap stick, the threaded split ring is slipped over thestick to a central position and then first one and then the other of the caps are screwed onto the respective threaded portions of the ring. In screwing either of the caps onto the ring, the latter is contracted and thereby caused to very securely grip the soap stick andho ld the same against longitudinal movement. This contraction of the ring is brought about owing to the wedging action exerted by the sloping sides of the interengaging threads. It will be seen that the central bead 12 constitutes an abutment which limits the extent to which the caps can be screwed onto the central ring. The threads on the ring and cap are quite deep which is of importance in two respects; first, in that the threads on the caps cannot slip over those on the ring as the depth of the threads become less andless when the ring is contracted, and second, there. is sufficient space between the cylindrical walls of the caps-and the soap to permit of swelling of the soap at its ends .incase-it is-dippedinto water or-the user appliesa wetbrush directly to the end of the stick.

It willbe clear that my improved soap stick, container is extremely simple in construction. It comprises but'relatively few parts, each of which may be very economically manufactured. The parts may be very readily assembled and when assembled the ringis. contracted against the soap by the caps and the caps are very securely held on the ring. One feature: of importance .is that it is the caps themselves, or either of them, which constitute means for contracting the ringetightly against the soap stick the use of projections which embed themselves'into the soap; being eliminated. As stated, owing to the interlocking tongue 1A and notch 15'at the ends of the-strip of which the central ring is constructed, the threads on the ringare always maintained in-proper alinement. l/Vhen both ends-of-- the soap have been worndown to-"the ring, the. caps may beremoved, the remaining stub. of soap pushed-out of-the ring, and a-Inewstick positioned in the ring, and the stub pre viously removed from'the ring pressed onto the exposed and moistened end'ofthe new stick. This gives one hundred per cent-efficiency with a minimum of trouble,

I claim. as my invention 1. A package comprising a cylindrical soap stick and a container therefor,- including two caps anda split ring, said caps and said ring having screw threaded con nections, said'ring; beingadapted .to slide on said soap stick when said caps are'disengage d from said ring, and said caps and ringbeing so proportioned and dimensioned that the. threading of either of said caps on said ring binds the ring inplace against said soap stick. V i

2; A package comprlslng acyllndrical soap stick and a conta ner, including a pair of caps for protecting the respective ends of the soap stick and each provided at its ope-n end with a thread, a split contractible ring adapted to be slipped longitudinally of the soap stick, saidring having its opposite ends threaded complementary to, so as to receive the threads on, said caps, and an enlarged circumferential bead between said threaded ends, said ring eand caps being so proportioned and dimensioned that the ring is contracted and held in place by either of said caps when the same is screwed thereonto.

3. A package comprising a cylindrical soap stick and a. container, including a-pair of. caps for protecting the respective ends of the soap stick and each provided at its open endwith a thread, a split contractible ring adapted to-be slipped longitudinally of the soap stick, said ring having its oppositeendsthreaded complementary to, soas to receive the threads on, said caps, and an enlarged circumferential bead between said threaded ends, saidring and caps beinggso proportioned and dimensioned that the ring is contractedzand held in-place by eitherot said caps iwhen'the same is screwed thereonto, the. threads on the opposite ends of said ring bei-ng;in-opposite 'directionsand the complementary threads on 7 said ring and 7 caps being relativelydeep 5 whereby to prevent the threadson the caps iirom being slipped over those; -on the ring-1 and to space the, caps-from the soapgstick.

4. A shaving, stickv container comprising a split: contractible; ring; adapted to surround a-soap stick intermediate its ends and having its oppositeendsthreaded in opposite directions, interengaging means between the-ends: of the strip ofjvhich the ring is constructed for maintaining said threads in alinement; at the, split, in the a ring, and a Pa r: of ps-z or pr ecting he respe tive .maintaining; the threads in alinement at the split in'the ring, anda pair of caps for protecting the respectiveends otthe soap stick andeach'providedat its open end with threads complementary tothose 7 on the ring-and adapted to contract said ring when screwed thereontotightly against said stick. 7

6. A shaving stick containercomprising a pair of caps each provided at its open a central enlarged head between the threadend With screw threads, a split eontractilole ed portions, and an interlocking tongue and ring formed of sheet metal and adapted to notch at the ends of said bead for main- 10 he slipped longitudinally on the shaving taining the screw threads of the ring in stick, said ring having its opposite ends alinement.

provided with threads complementary to and adapted to receive those on said caps, PHILIP K. WILLIAMS. 

